The Shake N Kill It Move

[m-j]

IF they are active reward dogs, the answer is yes.

Hi

Does this mean a game of some sort, as opposed to food??

cheers

M-J

[herding_guy]

IF they are active reward dogs, the answer is yes.

Hi

Does this mean a game of some sort, as opposed to food??

cheers

M-J

yes.

[Lablover]

Sorry should of been clearer.

Believe me Scout almost killed himself many times through to adulthood and is still trying................gotta love that dog.

No problem. Thankyou.

My 14 month old is turning grey. When he injures himself, ie in cover etc as he has no fear, he hair regrows grey. The rate he is going, I will have a fancy new fangled coloured labrador. He jumped through an electric fence twice the other day and did not even notice. Unfortunately he tried the same trick when wet the following day. He noticed then.

Surprisingly he is very biddible training wise. Lovely dog!!!

[dasha]

The detection dogs are classified as active or passive depending on the "response" they are trained to give.

The term 'Active' means that the dog will give an active response to the item such as digging or biting.

The term 'Passive' means the dog has passive response to item such as sitting, dropping or freezing.

The dogs on that show are all trined using a 'dummy' (rolled up towel) as a reward but are trained to use a different reaponse depending on the situation they are in. For instance if they detect something on a person they will si but if it is in a box or box or inanimate object, they will dig.

So you can have 'Active' response - food reward and 'passive' response with a tug game if you get what i mean, it just depends on the way the dog needs to work in each area